A lady to remember

i have a story to tell......
today i met a women in a palliative care unit.
she was a 39 year-old lady with a stage 4 breast cancer and severe lung metastasis.
she was very ill, cachetic and breathless and all her four limbs were deformed, may be due to decrease in joint movements, contractures were everywhere.
there was a story behind this lady..
she was a single mother with a 5 years old daughter.
the disease was diagnosed rather late and the prognosis was very poor.
after she knew that she could not live long enough to raise her own daughter, she arranged an adoption for her 5 years old daughter. the adoptive family was foriegners in one of the western country, if i was not mistaken.
today, the family promised to bring her daughter back to see her, because doctor predicted that she may not be able to live till next week.
while prof yip was doing consultation, she insisted to go home. because she said she did not want her daughter to see her in this condition. she was afraid that her daughter was not prepared to see her like this, with tubes and drips all over her body.
but the thing is, her condition was very critical and she needed hospital fascilities to support her life.
prof yip tried to persuade and reason out for her so that she would stay.
there were frustration, helplessness and tears.
this.... would be the last time her daughter see her mummy, she decided to undergo terminal sedation after she meet her daughter today. then she will fall into deep sleep, forever.
this lady, a great mother, may be forgotten, one day when her daughter grows up.
but this lady, will live in my heart, in my story.
and this is the best i can do.

this lady, her name, is... Berlinda